Night Moves

Restrictions as a sign of progress. Anymore, our missions take place at night. This is how it's been for almost a month now, and in the next couple weeks of being here it will stay the same. Various objectives, as simple as moving personnel, or other night moves of a more tactical nature, have to be done with IP escorts within the city. A mission that takes place along main routes still moves without Iraqi escort. This may be difficult to picture back in the states, but it makes sense. Main routes have long since been established and are typically busy like a major interstate back home with supply and fuel convoys.

The restrictions for me mean limited photo opportunities and a lessened opportunity for any kind of contact with locals. But the following set of pictures are fairly interesting. The blurred lights of travel after sunset could be almost any city, and in fact at times, as I'm dreary eyed, and on a mission long enough that I've even become bored with my ipod, it can appear, for a moment, in that lapse of full consciousness, that I'm back in the states, in Colorado Springs, Jacksonville, or passing through Daytona.